2002 Christmas Contest Winners!

[Jeff]

Congratulations to our winners!  Stacy drew the names from my famous straw forum hat. We only had one glitch. She says "I hope Tom wins". She then reached in, and out of all those names guess who's name she draws? TOM'S!  I told her Tom can get along without a another safety helmet so we threw his name out.  ;D Sorry Santa Tom.

After that we drew in the following order (below is a scan of the slips we drew in order, followed by the names and the prize)



Saki-Hardhat system
Corley5-Hardhat system
dewwood-river rats pictures
SteveS-First aid kit
Ravioli Kid-First aid kit
Sawwood-pack of dozen pair of utility gloves

Special Winner SawBilly First aid kit, and sumpthun else?

Here's why a special winner...

I do have all of your mailing address's and will be shipping your prizes out as soon as possible!

I have a thank-you list that I want to post here again.
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I want to take a moment and thank our prize doners.

The Michigan Association of Timbermen Self-Insurers' Fund
(MATSIF)
http://www.timbermen.org/matsif.shtml

Billsby Lumber Company
http://www.timberbuyer.net/members/25pm.htm

My wife and family (Wildflower)(Jeremy)(Scooby) ;o). They give me the time to do this without question and are more help then you can ever know.

I would also like to thank our sponsors who help make things a little easier.

Wood-Mizer
www.woodmizer.com

Michigan Forest Resource Alliance
www.mfra.org

And thanks to you for being a member of this forum.
As I hear all the time now, there is no other place like it.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Picture of prizes

[sawwood]

 

  Thanks Santa
    This is sure a great place to hang out at. Thanks Jeff
 and to all that help make it specal. I hope every one has
 a great Christmas and a happy new year. I sure do need
 the gloves as i hope to be cutting some logs soon, will
 post some photos with my new gloves on.

  Sawwood          

[Bro. Noble]

Well Hells bells------all that behaving for nothing :'(.

Congratulations guys and girl.

Noble

[Jeff]

THe Ghost of Christmas past is visiting T-O-M tonight I forgot to say. Everytime you type T-O-M without the hyphens tonight you will see a Ebeneizer ;D

[Tom]

??           ......Oh yeah!?

[Paul_H]

Tom?

[Paul_H]

It worked,sorry T-o-m :

[Tom]

Grrrr.   that little fairy!  Where's my shotgun!


Man!  That Rivere Rats picture is neat.

[Paul_H]

It's only for tonight,it'll be gone tomorrow ;D

tomato,tomato,let's call the whole thing off : :

[Tom]

wow, it even works when the t-o-m is imbedded in a word.
tomato., atom, tom is a slick dude,

[Jeff]

Now thats Funny!

Anyboy having Tomturkey for Christmas Dinner?  I am not sure but I may get up and go muzzle loading Tommorrow.

Wow I suppose this is going over like an ATom bomb eh T-O-M? ;D

[Tom]

You been talking Canadian too, Fairy......I mean Elf :-[

[Jeff]

Careful or the ghost of Christmas present and future may have to visit.

[Tom]

Hey everybody......look!   We've got a new member and he;s from England too. How many does that make?  ....members, not England's.   I figured I better clarify that the way things are going here. :D

[Jeff]

Have you learned your lesson yet Tom? have you learned that the Forestry Forum is no place to shoot at our childrens Christmas dreams? Is Tiny Tim to get his Goose? Can I make you T-o-m again?

Ho Ho Ho?

[whitepe]

Wow,
T-O-M must have multiple personality disorder.
First he's Santa and now he's Ebeneizer.
We need to get him some medication. ;D
Maybe it's too much sawdust or too much
warm weather for the little guy.

Whitepe

[Corley5]

 8) 8) 8) 8)  I won something.  Thanks all and Merry Christmas!!!

[whitepe]

Hey Mr. Elf,
Why not use your Tommy gun instead of a muzzle
loader Tomorrow. I wonder when he's going to hit
bottom.   ;D
Ya gotta admit though, Tom is a good sport.

[Jeff]

Yep he sure is. I think I'll go Talk with the guy in charge and have him give us our names back. I need to go to bed.

Nightall, keep yer flues open and your fires low and the cookies fresh and the milk cold and send me anything that aint spoken for in the morning. ;)

[Texas Ranger]

Tom, from a historical stand point, you should demand a recount!!!!!!!!! ;D

[Jeff]

I'm sorry but Tom's hanging chad has no pull on the forum.

[Tom]

I'm happy with the way things turned out.  Shootin' at Santa is still fun ;D

Good thing my God's got a sense of humor :D :D

Congratulations all you winners.

G'nite all, it's late and there's kids to be watched tomorrow. ;D :D

[Bro. Noble]

That was no small prize that Tom got when Stacy said she hoped that he won.

Jeff gave us all a big gift with this contest-----it forced everyone to share their biography.

What a great forum and what a great bunch of guys and gals.

God bless us everyone.

Noble

[dewwood]

Jeff and all of the Forum adminstrators:

First I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas.  My children are all home safe and sound and that makes it very special.

Second I would like to thank the Forum and the sponsors for the excellent presents given to the lucky winners.  I appreciate the time all of the Administrators put into making this Forum such a successful site.

I will look forward to receiving the River Rats, those old time pictures are fascinating.

Thanks again,
Dewey

[Tom]

Hey Corley5.  It's pretty neat to win something, eh?   I haven't won too much in my life. Could probably count the times on one hand and have fingers left over.  What's your history.  have you won much before this? If you're starting a new trend then it may pay to get Lotto ticket or two. :D

[RavioliKid]

Wow! I won a prize!

Thanks so much, Jeff - and the rest of the family that lets you do this for us. What a treasure!

And, I can really use a first aid kit!

Merry Christmas to you and yours and all the rest of my friends here on the forum!

[Corley5]

Actually this is the second safety helmet that I've won.  I won one at the Lake States Logging Congress in St. Ignace.  It was a Husky one.  Otherwise I don't win much.  That's why I don't go to the local Indian casinos very often and if I do I don't take much money.  I did win $275.00 playing $.25 slots once.  I took the money and ran ;D ;D ;D

[johncinquo]

Go Michigan!  Seeing as how I made it a hobby to read all those bios, I seem to recognize that we have our fair share of winners!   Great Job Jeff.   JB

[Jeff]

I am going to add a prize and another name to the winners list. I just found out I had 3 first aid kits. I am not going to draw for this because I know who is going to get it. I will try to add something else to this prize too to make it a little more special, but I don't know what yet.

The person I want to give this to did something that nobody else did. It's not because he sent me his entry email 5 minutes after I drew the names either, even though I felt bad about that.

Did anyone look at the Forum Calendar yesterday? I did. Thank you SawBilly for adding Christmas to the Calendar along with the reason we celebrate.

SawBilly I need you to email me your mailing address I do not have it. Thanks again!

[Saki]

  :oThanks Jeff, and thanks to all the sponsors. You folks broke my losing streak!   I have been telling folks that it didn't matter what was being raffled I wouldn't win. If they were only selling 2 tickets, if I didn't buy em both I didn't stand a chance. What a great prize. Thanks again. saki

[Tom]

Way to go Saki.    We don't have any losers around here. ;D

[ADfields]

The Las Vagas bus drivers all say "We have winners and investers on here, no losers!" :D ;D
Andy

[SteveS]

I can't believe I actually won something. I hate to say it but I'm sure that first aid kit will get plenty of use. I would like to thank you Jeff for this place and everything you do, and also thanks to all of you members who help make this place so great.

Happy Holidays
SteveS

[Tom]

way to go steve.

The best first aid kits are those that never get used.  It's kinda like having a boat that will catch fish. :D

[Dugsaws]

We are all winners only becasue we come to this great site  8) Congrats to all the winners and really I am kind of glad I didnt win... for my wife would be in her glory becasue shes the one who went behind my back and posted my bio, read it... you will see it was the wife! lol

Thanks for making this site a great one everyone!  ;D

[ADfields]

WOW a Sawmill Junky!   Watch out she dont put you in rehab.
Andy

[SawBilly]

Thanks Jeff that is great. I hope I never need to use the first aid kit ;D although with 5 kids I probably will  

Well it is actuall a couple of days past Christmas now, I got the three middle kids a trampoline to share, I had it put together leaned up against the house for over a week, they never saw it....it was great!!!

[Tom]

Yep, I forsee in my crystal ball that you will need a first aid kit. :D

[Jeff]

These first aid kits don't cover trampolines! There are no spints or casts included!

[dewwood]

Jeff,

I received the River Rats pictures today.  NEAT!

Thanks again for the pictures and all of your work on the Forum.

Dewey

[RavioliKid]

Santa Jeff,

I just got the fantastic first aid kit in the mail. Wow! What a treasure!

It is so neat that I hope I never have to use it just so I never have to unwrap any of those spiffy color-coded boxes!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Kim

[Corley5]

I got my helmet in the mail the other day also.  Pretty sharp!!  The only problem is that it says Stihl and I don't own a Stihl saw.  I told Dee I was going to buy one to match my new hat ;).  That didn't go over real well ;D ;D ;D.  Guess I'll have to find a Husky sticker to cover up the Stihl one ;D :D  Thanks Jeff!!